Anglia Television

Anglia Television is the ITV station for East Anglia, which has been broadcasting since 27 October 1959. The station is based in Norwich, with regional news bureaux in Ipswich, Chelmsford, Peterborough, Cambridge, Luton and Northampton.

Identity

Anglia's original ident was a short film of a rotating silver statue of a knight on horseback. At the end, the camera zoomed in on the pennon atop the knight's lance, which showed the station's name. An arrangement, by Malcolm Sargent, of Handel's Water Music was played over the film. The Anglia knight logo became so closely identified with the station that when, in 1999, the station produced a book to mark its fortieth anniversary, it was entitled A Knight On The Box (ISBN 0-906836-40-9).

With the introduction of colour television in the 1970s, the ident was remade with constant lighting, and the knight constantly rotating as though on a turntable. In 1988 the knight was replaced by a quasi-heraldic stylised 'A' made of triangles, which faded in and out on a fluttering flag during continuity announcements.

In 2002, as with all companies now owned by ITV plc, the station lost its separate identity, becoming branded as ITV Anglia.

Ownership

Anglia was an independent corporation for much of its existence. In 1994, it was bought by MAI, who were themselves later acquired by United News and Media, and then in 2000 by Granada. In 2004, Granada merged with Carlton to form ITV plc, which ended Anglia's existence as a separate brand.

In 1993, the station took over the cartoon studio Cosgrove Hall, when it was sold off by its original owners, Thames Television.

Productions

Some of Anglia's notable contributions to the national television network include:

Knightmare
Tales of the Unexpected
Sale of the Century
Survival
Alternative 3
Weavers Green
Trisha
Vanessa
Gambit
Farming Diary - not a networked programme, but this was the agricultural programme chosen by Yorkshire Television for their region.

Local News

Anglia Tonight - previously About Anglia

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